In 2010, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication reported that only 57% of Americans can explain what the greenhouse effect is.

If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics.

Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

’The greenhouse effect’, they called it.

Stephen King -- Cujo

The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.

Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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Procter & Gamble’s Decision Earth program taught that clear-cut logging was actually good for the environment; teaching aids distributed by the Exxon Education Foundation said that fossil fuels created few environmental problems and that alternative sources of energy were too expensive; a study guide sponsored by the American Coal Foundation dismissed fears of a greenhouse effect, claiming that "the earth could benefit rather than be harmed from increased carbon dioxide."

Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

But these days you never can tell, because there’s so much trouble with the climate and the greenhouse effect and all that."

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire

The greenhouse effect.

Stephen King -- Cujo

SPCA, greenhouse effect, garbage disposals, what next?

Stephen King -- Cujo

’The greenhouse effect,’ she answered, without even thinking about it.

Stephen King -- Cujo

The morning sun streamed into the car, creating the greenhouse effect, dry and remorseless.